How can [astronauts] pack light and still bring all of the necessities, especially with an increased risk of injury during a six-month flight? The answer could be what Dr. Julielynn Wong calls the "doctor's bag of the future": 3-D printing. In January, Wong was the first...

Can computers be creative? That’s a question bordering on the philosophical, but artificial intelligence (AI) can certainly make music and artwork that people find pleasing. Last year, Google launched Magenta, a research project aimed at pushing the limits of what...

The Art Space Pythagorion was built by the Munich-based Schwarz Foundation, which is an independent, non-profit. The goal of building the space - a two-story box sitting on the shore of the marina - was to enrich the island’s...

The Guggenheim will play home to a site-specific dance installation in early September that audience members will view from the museum’s iconic spiral ramp. Falls the Shadow was conceived by American Ballet Theatre principal dancer...

Visitors to the Victoria and Albert Museum will be able to interact with digital holograms of Holocaust survivors thanks to a ground-breaking initiative. The Forever Project, set up by the National Holocaust Museum near Nottingham,...

The story of Detroit’s July 1967 riots is, in some ways, a tale of two cities, one black and one white. Now, 50 years later, three neighboring museums here are revisiting that fateful summer with exhibitions that portray and explore the riots in sharply different ways....

Certainly none of us know what the future holds, but artist Stuart Candy has given us his vision of the future of parenting, and it is terrifying. He has created the hypothetical NurturePod – 'a programmable para-pod' that...

Even if bitcoin fades into obscurity, finance experts believe that the technology behind it will live on and even change how financial services work. According to a study conducted by Swiss non-profit World Economic Forum, the blockchain, which is the public ledger that...

Ami Mariscal started Lift Your Business as a way to help millions of small business owners scale up their prosperity and happiness. Today LYB is achieving this by helping business owners and culture...

Today, many kids with ADHD are being treated pharmacologically without much thought to whether physical activity might be another outlet: Nearly 11% of school-aged children are now diagnosed with ADHD, a 41% increase over the last...

From New York to Vermont, and from Illinois to Idaho, a new kind of education standard is taking root. It's called mastery-based learning, and it means no grades. That's right; no A's, B's or C's. Instead, students focus on grade-appropriate...

Crews removed Baltimore’s Confederate statues early Wednesday, days after the deadly unrest in Charlottesville instigated by white nationalists rallying to defend a downtown Confederate monument. The quiet and sudden removal...

Museum people know our organizations are critical educational resources, but all too often this is a big secret to people in the “formal” education system. Sage Morgan Hubbard, the Alliance’s Ford W. Bell Fellow for...

Scientists have successfully edited the DNA of human embryos to erase a heritable heart condition that is known for causing sudden death in young competitive athletes, cracking open the doors to a controversial new era in medicine....